Even before reading the 'Accabadora' by Michela Murgia, you know you're holding something special, bringing you a glimpse of the unknown side of other culture. In Italy, the book has been an immense success and won six literary awards, including the prestigious Campielo Prize. At invitation of Italian Embassy in China, Michaela Murgia presented the translated edition of her book in Beijing and Shanghai.

Michela Murgia is known as a versatile writer publically engaged in the struggle against female objectification. Many of her works exhibit a recurring interest in women's issues and compile a complex female portraits from unexpected angles. The novel , presented to Chinese audience this week, is set in the 1950's Sardinia and reveals one of the most incredible and unique traditions of the region. While the topic of euthanasia has been a taboo and the practice itself up until today rises the fierce debates, as the reader discover, women of Sardinia carried a particularly heavy heritage regadring this matter. The title 'accabadora' is given to the mature woman who was appointed by a community to induce death to the old and infirm. This novel is an exceptional Chinese-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local life and death in the closed community of Sardinia village.

Even before reading the 'Accabadora' by Michela Murgia, you know you're holding something special, bringing you a glimpse of the unknown side of other culture. In Italy, the book has been an immense success and won six literary awards, including the prestigious Campielo Prize. At invitation of Italian Embassy in China, Michaela Murgia presented the translated edition of her book in Beijing and Shanghai.

Michela Murgia is known as a versatile writer publically engaged in the struggle against female objectification. Many of her works exhibit a recurring interest in women's issues and compile a complex female portraits from unexpected angles. The novel , presented to Chinese audience this week, is set in the 1950's Sardinia and reveals one of the most incredible and unique traditions of the region. While the topic of euthanasia has been a taboo and the practice itself up until today rises the fierce debates, as the reader discover, women of Sardinia carried a particularly heavy heritage regadring this matter. The title 'accabadora' is given to the mature woman who was appointed by a community to induce death to the old and infirm. This novel is an exceptional Chinese-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local life and death in the closed community of Sardinia village.